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Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Smart Data Conference in San Jose
OAKLAND, Calif. — May 26, 2015 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Smart Data Conference this August in San Jose, CA. The Smart Data Conference is designed to accommodate all levels of technical understanding, and brings together emerging disciplines that are focused on more intelligent information gathering and analysis.
Healthcare Analytics with a Smart Data Lake
Montefiore Medical Center in collaboration with Franz, Intel, Cloudera and Cisco created a scalable and extensible Learning Healthcare System platform for accountable care and precision medicine initiatives. The underlying Hadoop based big data platform is called a "Semantic Data Lake" (SDL).
The SDL integrates complex information and analytic requirements including:
The SDL links and fuses domain specific models (ontologies), biomedical terminologies and taxonomy systems, and other contextual metadata with ERP data, Electronic Medical Records, and medical device data in massive volumes. The SDL provides a uniform, semantically integrated, self-descriptive information repository based on graph representations of multi-source, heterogeneous data (including free text clinical narratives). This platform is expected to grow to 4 trillion edges by the end of 2015.
Montefiore uses this platform for scalable knowledge-based analytics for classification, pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and simulations. We will demonstrate how we can create smart applications for decision support, fraud detection, risk management, personalized care management, signal detection and notifications.
About Dr. Aasman
Jans Aasman started his
career as an experimental and cognitive psychologist, earning his
PhD in cognitive science with a detailed model of car driver
behavior using Lisp and Soar. He has spent most of his professional
life in telecommunications research, specializing in intelligent
user interfaces and applied artificial intelligence projects. From
1995 to 2004, he was also a part-time professor in the Industrial
Design department of the Technical University of Delft. Jans is
currently the CEO of Franz Inc., the leading supplier of commercial,
persistent, and scalable RDF database products that provide the
storage layer for powerful reasoning and ontology modeling
capabilities for Semantic Web applications.
Accomplishments:
Dr. Aasman has gained notoriety as a conference speaker at such events
as Semantic Technologies Conference, International Semantic Web
Conference, Java One, Enterprise Data World, Semantics in Healthcare
and Life Sciences, Linked Data Planet, INSA, GeoWeb, AAAI, NoSQLNow,
Graph Data Management, RuleML, IEEE conferences, and DEBS to name a
few.
About Franz Inc.
Franz's semantic
technology solutions help
bring Web 3.0
ideas to reality. The company is the leading supplier of commercial,
persistent and scalable Graph Database products. AllegroGraph is a
high-performance database capable of storing and querying billions
of RDF statements. The product provides solutions for customers to
combine unstructured and structured data using W3C standard RDF for
creating new Web 3.0 applications as well as identifying new
opportunities for Business Intelligence in the Enterprise.
AllegroGraph’s Activity Recognition package provides a
powerful means to aggregate and analyze data about individual and
organizational behaviors, preferences, relationships, plus spatial
and temporal linkages between individuals and groups. Franz
customers include Fortune 500 companies in the government, life
sciences and telecommunications industries. For more information,
visit www.franz.com.
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